Country Witness Expert on Haiti, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago, Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
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Expert at The Human Rights Experts, an international expert witness organisation.
We provide expert witness reports for asylum cases worldwide, covering human rights violations, political persecution, and systemic oppression. Our reports are trusted by lawyers, courts, and immigration authorities, in full compliance with procedural standards and tribunal requirements in the UK (CPR Part 35, Upper Tribunal PD, First-tier Tribunal IAC PD), USA (Federal Rules of Evidence), Canada, and the EU.
Winner of the Expert Witness Awards in the category of Best Immigration, Asylum & Refugee Expert Witness 2024
Human Rights and Political Risk Analyst
Regional Specialist on Security and Migration in the Caribbean
Legal Researcher and Document Verifier
I provide expert analysis on all five Refugee Convention grounds: political opinion, religion, ethnicity, membership of a particular social group (including LGBT and gender-based cases), and nationality, with a focus on the Caribbean region.
This includes:
- Political persecution of dissidents, protesters, journalists, and opposition members in authoritarian contexts (Cuba, Haiti).
- Gang violence, kidnapping, and state collapse in Haiti, with widespread threats against women, minors, and activists.
- Targeting of human rights defenders, unionists, and independent voices in Cuba and parts of the Dominican Republic.
- Discrimination based on ethnicity, skin tone, and national origin particularly affects Haitians and people of Haitian descent.
- Gender-based violence and institutional failures to protect victims across the region.
- Abuse and exclusion of LGBT individuals, including social rejection, police harassment, and a lack of legal protection.
- Statelessness, lack of birth registration, and barriers to documentation, especially in the Dominican Republic.
- Reprisal against returnees and deportees, particularly from the US and UK, including surveillance, detention, or violence.
- Religious repression in Cuba and societal intolerance in other parts of the region.
- Challenges in access to justice, freedom of expression, and systemic corruption across island states.
- Preparation of expert witness reports for asylum, immigration, and human rights cases.
- Provision of oral testimony before courts and tribunals.
- Verification and authentication of documents and country-specific evidence.
- Conducting nationality assessments, including statelessness evaluations.
- Author of regional research and publications on human rights violations in the Caribbean.
- Contributor to national reports and NGO briefings on political violence and displacement.
- Expert member of The Human Rights Experts.
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English (Fluent)
Haitian Creole (Professional)
French (Professional)